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President Obama called the work of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy a positive example for a country increasingly weary of politics, saying Monday that he hoped a new institute devoted to Kennedy's work and the Senate he served in could "help plant the seed of noble ambition in future generations." At the dedication ceremony in Boston for the new Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Obama and others remembered the late senator as a liberal champion just as eager to challenge as to collaborate with his ideological opponents. The tributes often doubled as commentaries on what Vice President Joe Biden referred to as today's broken political system. ...

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President Obama called the work of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy a positive example for a country increasingly weary of politics, saying Monday that he hoped a new institute devoted to Kennedy's work and the Senate he served in could...

They meet on Mondays at lunch.
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Each year the institution surveys more than...

The National Endowment for the Humanities will funnel $1.4 million to California museums, university-based scholars and libraries in grants announced this week, including $40,000 for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for a touring exhibition on the art...

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